Birth and death: Infant burials from Vlasac and Lepenski Vir

摘要: Why were infants buried beneath house-floors at the Mesolithic and early Neolithic site of Lepenski Vir? Undertaking a new analysis neonate remains Vlasac Lepenski Vir authors reject idea sacrificial infanticide, demonstrate consistency respect in these burials. They suggest that deaths mourned dead, like living, given protection by the houses they in. The treatment mothers children suggests increasing social cohesion from to Vir.